I said that time may change me

[austin_dern]

Not feeling good. Might be post-burnout stress. Might be actual sickness. I do figure to get a Covid-19 test when I feel up to going to Rite-Aid for it, but I think it's most likely that I finally hit my limits, with the next-most-likely possibility that I got a regular ordinary-grade cold. So in the meanwhile here's Michigan's Adventure pictures I haven't shared yet.

Thunderhawk's entrance. Every year I think they've changed it somehow (this year it was the stone pillars I thought were new) and every year they have not.

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Our bag of caramel corn with the teasingly over-precise nutritional information. What does this figure even mean? Nothing, that's what.

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Walking back past the Zach's Zoomer-adjacent entrance to Camp Snoopy.

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Corkscrew, going around its first corkscrew loop. Note that the track changes color for the inversion, something it's kept through a couple of paint jobs.

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Dodgem would be the last ride we got on for the day.

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My bumper car which was, yes, the one with the license plate AUSTIN.

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Trivia: The French sabotaged the television transmitter at the Eiffel Tower as the Germans overran the city in 1940. It would not be functional again until 1943. Source: Please Stand By: A Prehistory of Television, Michael Ritchie.

Currently Reading: The Complete Peanuts, 1999 - 2000, Charles Schulz. Editor Gary Groth.

Comments

Carmel corn

[moxie_man]

It means you'll eat just shy of 529 calories when you finish the bag 'cause what human in their right mind who buys that stuff at an amusement park is going to eat a single ounce and save the rest for when they get home???

Re: Carmel corn

[austin_dern]

Ended up being nearer 265 calories, since we split the bag, but the whole calculation is going for some weird hyper precision for some effect.

[jakebe]

Man, I'm sorry to hear you're not feeling well. :/ I really wouldn't be surprised if it was just good old-fashioned burnout. The last two years has basically worn all of us down to our limits.

Please take care, get some rest, and remember you are loved. <3 I sincerely hope everything works out!

[austin_dern]

Thank you. And, yes, I think most likely of all is simple burnout. It's been a really long time since I felt unburdened.

And thank you. I'm doing my best to rest, and certainly feel loved. (Possibly have felt more expressions of love than I've had in years, since this happened.) I'm hoping things are good enough again soon.